Lebanon’s new housing plan aims to balance conservation and affordable housing
"A group of around 20 people gathered last week to talk about how advocates for land conservation might work together with developers as the city creates a new housing plan.
Toward the beginning of the meeting, Donald Lacey, who sits on the Lebanon Conservation Commission, expressed a worry about the discussion becoming “the conservationists versus the housing folks. We gotta figure out how to talk to each other and work together as partners rather than adversaries.”
It was just what Steve Whitman, a consultant from Plymouth, N.H.-based Resilience Planning & Design who facilitated the meeting at City Hall, wanted to hear. Even just the “intent to work together” between conservationists and housing people would make the initial public discussion a success. he said."
